VanEck Durable High Dividend ETF

DURA

Market cap $54.6M

Learn how to develop a dividend investing strategy that generates a steady stream of passive income. Follow these actionable tips and advice to start building your portfolio today.

Crafting a dividend portfolio can provide reliable income for retirees, supplementing social security and ensuring financial stability with minimal market knowledge. Allocating funds to diversified ETFs like SCHD, LVHD, and DURA ensures consistent monthly income, tax efficiency, and low volatility. The portfolio aims for $42,000 in annual dividend income, with growth potential surpassing this target, ensuring retirees never touch the principal.

VanEck Durable High Dividend ETF holds 62 dividend stocks meeting some valuation and quality criteria, weighted on total dividends. The DURA ETF has value characteristics and a focus on energy, consumer staples and healthcare. DURA has underperformed in the S&P 500 and several dividend-focused ETFs since inception.

It has not been a bad year by any stretch for dividend stocks and the related exchange traded funds, but on a relative basis, there's no getting around the fact that these stocks have lagged the broader market.

Advisors and some enthused investors have probably heard at least something about the dividend aristocrats. It's a group of S&P 500 components that have raised their payouts for at least 20 consecutive years.

Over long horizons, dividends' growth and reinvestment of those payouts serve as vital factors in portfolio growth. However, dividends aren't guaranteed and with bond yields still high, some skittish investors may be inclined to embrace fixed income over equity income.

Yields have reset higher across fixed income markets, leaving bonds well positioned in a range of different economic and interest rate scenarios in 2024. Introduction to Income Investing Income investing is a strategy that aims to generate a steady stream of income from investments, typically through interest payments or dividends.